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Tim Sevenhuysen is the founder and sole developer of Oracle's Elixir and provides a variety of consulting and contracting services throughout the esports industry. He is the former Director of Esports Analytics for 100 Thieves, served as Head of Data Science for Esports One, led Shadow.gg from 2017 to 2019, and was Statistical Consultant for Fnatic in 2015. Follow Tim on Twitter at @TimSevenhuysen.
Check the Data

Farm Distribution Post-15 Minutes

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Farm distribution, specifically after the laning phase is over, is one way teams put priority on different players to take a larger role in the game. We’ll call 15 minutes the average “end of laning phase” for the sake of this exploration.

The data below reflects players’ average share of post-15-minute farm, with post-15-minute gold share also included for context. All data reflects each league’s 2015 Summer split regular season, including tiebreakers.

See the interactive table at the bottom of the post to explore Post-15 CS% globally (LPL data not available).

>35% Club

These players all averaged 35% or more of their teams’ post-15 CS.

  • FW KKramer (37.0%)
  • GV Altec (36.3%)
  • GIA PePiiNeRO (35.3%)
  • CLG Doublelift (35.0%)
  • GMB Forg1ven (35.0%)

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Analysis and Opinion

TSM Dyrus: Playoff Performer

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Last weekend, Team SoloMid earned a Quarterfinals victory over Gravity, riding on the shoulders of their much-criticized Top laner, Dyrus. TSM built multiple team compositions around Dyrus’s unexpected Olaf pick, surprising many with their shift in strategy.

Dyrus played Olaf three times and Gnar once and delivered big time on those selections, earning a 4.0 KDA and averaging 72% kill participation, 23% damage share, and only 18% of his team’s deaths. It was an MVP-worthy performance, and gave the veteran plenty of cause to break from his often stoic demeanor and share a few smiles afterwards.

But while the Dyrus-centered strategy was a big change from TSM’s recent style of play, Dyrus’s performance should not have been at all surprising: if the Spring split taught us anything, it’s that Dyrus knows how to show up in the postseason.

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News

Menus Changed

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I changed the order of the submenus so that the most recent split is listed at the top. Make sure you look at the title you’re clicking!

This method should be more logical once the menus start expanding to include more splits.